From the Onionhead: "We are what we feel. We never need to separate ourselves from our true feelings, no matter where we are or what we are doing. When we have a healthy relationship with our emotions, we foster a greater connection to ourselves, our family, our friends, our classmates and our business associates. We come to understand that our sensitivity and vulnerability are our strengths and not our weaknesses. The younger we start knowing ourselves, the better chance we have of living our full potential. It is not enough to know what we feel; we must know what to do with those feelings."

The whole thing is just walls of text that read like a pinterest board.

United Health Programs of America and its parent company, Cost Containment Group

WTF?

I worked for a small retail boutique some 30+ years ago where the managers were heavy into EST. They insisted that all employees attend EST training seminars and would have mandatory weekly 'sharing' session.

propasaurus:United Health Programs of America and its parent company, Cost Containment Group

WTF?

I worked for a small retail boutique some 30+ years ago where the managers were heavy into EST. They insisted that all employees attend EST training seminars and would have mandatory weekly 'sharing' session.

Was it mandatory-mandatory or was it just an optional-but-you-are-fired-if-you-miss thing?

Sudo_Make_Me_A_Sandwich:From the Onionhead: "We are what we feel. We never need to separate ourselves from our true feelings, no matter where we are or what we are doing. When we have a healthy relationship with our emotions, we foster a greater connection to ourselves, our family, our friends, our classmates and our business associates. We come to understand that our sensitivity and vulnerability are our strengths and not our weaknesses. The younger we start knowing ourselves, the better chance we have of living our full potential. It is not enough to know what we feel; we must know what to do with those feelings."

The whole thing is just walls of text that read like a pinterest board.

cman:propasaurus: United Health Programs of America and its parent company, Cost Containment Group

WTF?

I worked for a small retail boutique some 30+ years ago where the managers were heavy into EST. They insisted that all employees attend EST training seminars and would have mandatory weekly 'sharing' session.

Was it mandatory-mandatory or was it just an optional-but-you-are-fired-if-you-miss thing?

It was mandatory to attend the weekly sessions. The training was supposedly 'you have to go or you can't work here' but I kept putting it off and never actually went. They said it was to increase sales, but my sales were consistently higher than anyone else, so they couldn't say anything to me.At the time, I didn't know any better, and thought they were just weird hippies. Now, hell yeah I'd raise a stink about it.

I'm a bit confused. It says they were required to pray and thank God for their jobs, but then it says that they put a Buddha statue in the woman's office. So... are they fundamentalist Buddhists? I didn't think Buddhism was a monotheistic religion. Are there Buddhists who literally think that Siddhartha Guatama was God incarnate, and must be prayed to? Or are these fundie Christians who were mocking her with the statue?

It is not what is Onionhead - it is who is Onionhead? Onionhead is this incredibly pure, wise and adorable character who teaches us how to name it - claim it - tame it - aim it. Onion spelled backwards is 'no-i-no'.

It is not what is Onionhead - it is who is Onionhead? Onionhead is this incredibly pure, wise and adorable character who teaches us how to name it - claim it - tame it - aim it. Onion spelled backwards is 'no-i-no'.

FTFA: Reuters reports that in 2010, one employee told the management that she was Catholic and did not want to take part in the Onionhead religious practices. One month later that employee was moved from her office and "relocated to an open customer service area, while a large statue of a Buddha was placed in her former office." After she protested, saying that the move was equivalent to a demotion, she was fired.

This paragraph baffles me and I wish the reporter explained what this is all about. Are they saying her office was converted into some kind of shrine for the employees? Or that since she was Catholic she would be somehow offended by the company putting a statue connected with another religion in her old office? Or that the statue of Buddha was promoted to management? Or that putting a statue there was a kind of jibe that she was as useless as a statue?

Is this Onionhead belief system even connected to Buddhism in some way?

propasaurus:United Health Programs of America and its parent company, Cost Containment Group

WTF?

I worked for a small retail boutique some 30+ years ago where the managers were heavy into EST. They insisted that all employees attend EST training seminars and would have mandatory weekly 'sharing' session.

Tommy Moo:I'm a bit confused. It says they were required to pray and thank God for their jobs, but then it says that they put a Buddha statue in the woman's office. So... are they fundamentalist Buddhists? I didn't think Buddhism was a monotheistic religion. Are there Buddhists who literally think that Siddhartha Guatama was God incarnate, and must be prayed to? Or are these fundie Christians who were mocking her with the statue?

I worked for a small retail boutique some 30+ years ago where the managers were heavy into EST. They insisted that all employees attend EST training seminars and would have mandatory weekly 'sharing' session.

What? You had the chance to learn EST and you passed it up? Man, think of all the minds you could have read and all the advantages that would have given you!

My last job required that I worship a supreme deity or deities with some established cannons of doctrine and/or holy writings or denounce the existence of any supreme being and go full atheist but that if I ever showed up with an agnostic attitude I was going to be written up.

Prey4reign:As a small business owner who forces his employees to worship Pumpkinhead I'm getting a big kick out of this thread.

Well, you sound more interesting than my first boss who made me:1. Listen to Rush Limbaugh every single day.. O.o2. Pushing his uber-Catholic agenda on me every minute of the day (Including some weird rituals he did around the office including drawing weird symbols on the door frames with chalk)3. Then turned around and used my work computer to look at hardcore porn and leave empty bottles of booze on my work desk after-hours (I had to sanitize my workstation quite often).

trappedspirit:My last job required that I worship a supreme deity or deities with some established cannons of doctrine and/or holy writings or denounce the existence of any supreme being and go full atheist but that if I ever showed up with an agnostic attitude I was going to be written up.

cman:propasaurus: United Health Programs of America and its parent company, Cost Containment Group

WTF?

I worked for a small retail boutique some 30+ years ago where the managers were heavy into EST. They insisted that all employees attend EST training seminars and would have mandatory weekly 'sharing' session.

Was it mandatory-mandatory or was it just an optional-but-you-are-fired-if-you-miss thing?

Six Sigma training is big right now. Farking waste of time along with LEAN.

/so glad I left the corporate cult behind//at least CISSP is marginally useful